From a response on Yahoo! Answers regarding the weather on September 11, 2001: “In the NYC area it was clear and in the 70s, with excellent visibility. I could see the smoke from the WTC from my house which is about 35 miles from downtown Manhattan.” – Flyboy, “What was the exact forecast and actual […]
9/11/2001
On the morning of September 11, 2001, “At 9:25, [Federal Aviation Administration’s head Jane] Garvey, in an historic and admirable step, and almost certainly after getting an okay from the White House, initiated a national ground stop, which forbids takeoffs and requires planes in the air to get down as soon as reasonable. The order, […]
9/10/2001
“We have found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the President and his top advisers [Since August 6, 2001] of the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States. DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] Tenet visited President Bush in Crawford, Texas, on August 17 and participated […]
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On September 4, 2001, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice met with Bush administration principals to devise a plan to go after al-Qaeda. “Six days later, on September 10 [2001], Rice forwarded the al-Qaeda strategy to Bush, while her deputy, Stephen Hadley, convened the number-two officials of the national security departments to advance a separate but […]
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“On September 10 [2001], just over 300 U.S. Border Patrol agents supported by a single analyst were assigned the job of detecting and intercepting illegal border crossings along the entire vast 4,000-mile land and water border with Canada. Meanwhile, after a decade of budgetary neglect, the U.S. Coast Guard, tasked with maintaining port security and […]
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“Shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration was debating how to force bin Laden out of Afghanistan. At a Sept. 10, 2001, meeting of second-tier Cabinet officials, officials settled on a three-phase strategy. The first step called for dispatching an envoy to talk to the Taliban. If this failed, diplomatic pressure would be […]
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“One day before the Sept. 11 attacks [September 10, 2001], senior Bush administration officials agreed that the United States would try to overthrow Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers if a final diplomatic push to expel Osama bin Laden from the country failed, a federal panel reported Tuesday [March 23, 2004].” – Hope Yen, “Panel: U.S. Had Plan […]
9/10/2001
“The FBI issued 216 internal threat warnings about the possibility of an attack by al Qaeda between January [1] and September [10] 2001, while the National Security Agency reported 33 intercepts indicating possible al Qaeda attacks.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 59 […]
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“No president eight months into his term had ever had a lower approval rating in the polls than George W. Bush had on September 10, 2001. Within weeks his approval rating was higher than that ever enjoyed by an American president.” – Ian S. Lustick, Trapped in the War on Terror, Page 62 […]
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On September 12, 2001, Acting Director of the FBI Thomas Pickard received a letter from Attorney General John Ashcroft. “It was a denial of his request for more money for the counter terrorism division. The letter was dated September 10, 2001.” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 248 […]